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Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
The family therapist who created the field of “ambiguous loss” with practical wisdom on how to live with what’s lost.
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, y ...
When Grief Gets Complicated
One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of st ...
Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us
What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief ...
What do I do with re-stirring grief?
On Tuesday, we discussed cumulative and anticipatory grief, both in general, and in our current climate of COVID-19. I noted that the goal of deali ...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; ...
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in com ...
A Timely and Short Discourse on Grief
I’m not one to get weepy very often, but between the death of my aunt and two men from my circle of friends with spinal cord injuries, 11 weeks of ...
A Liturgy for Those with an Inconsolable Homesickness (read by Doug McKelvey)
from Every Moment Holy (Rabbit Room Press) ©2017 Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Helping Children Deal With Grief
You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulth ...
Refuge in Grief : grief support that doesn't suck.
If your life has exploded into a million little bits, you don’t need platitudes. I made this for you: Grief support that doesn't suck.